Another Salvage post! I’ll start with the happy stuff, since, well, it’s happy! To date, our salvage group has gotten 5 35s, which isn’t half bad considering we’ve only been going 2-3x/week for 8 weeks! We’ve gotten: 2 pairs of Usukane pants, 1 Morrigan Robe, 1 Skadi shoes (which has since left the group :<), and one pair of Morrigan hands. Of course, none of these have been completed yet, but we’ve gotten the 35s for it! Since 4 of those are from Arrapago, last week we did two Bhaf. bosses to try and match up some 25s. Monday night we got Skadi shoes 25 (which went to Star, since the guy with the 35 left D:, putting him @2/3) and Ares’s mask, which went to Seite who was actually @2/3 on that piece from another group, making Monday complete our first upgrade! Tuesday we netted the Ares’s 25 body and the Usukane 25 pants…thus starting the shit storm.
Our lotting system is pretty strait forward; it’s a group for friends, but we have priorities etc.. so we know what to focus on. We also have interest pieces, so that if they drop people can have claim on them, but we don’t go out of our way to get them. So, my list looks like this: #1 Morri Robe, #2 Morri Slops, Interest Morri Pigaches, Crown, Gloves. One person had Ares’s Body as #1, one person had it as #2. Ditto for the Usukane pants. The people who had it listed as #2 both were very unhappy that they couldn’t lot, and complained. So the question that’s on mine and the other “leaders” is: WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE IT LISTED AS #1 THEN? I mean, I’m really not sure how much clearer we could get…
One guy was ok with it, but the other guy…wow. He was livid that the first guy got Usu legs instead of him, because he “just joined.” Our Salvage group is made up of our Nyzul group; this is someone from our Nyzul group. He didn’t come for the first seveal runs due to RL stuff, but it wasn’t like he got the 25 on his first run. Moreover, he also had the 35; we didn’t give the 25 to someone who needed the 35 over someone who could upgrade now. Bleugh. Anyways, I was then told I was a liar because Rae wasn’t with us from the start, and I “ninja added him”. I kid you not, that’s what I was told. This Salvage group was BASED around our Nyzul static…but I ninja’d someone in from Nyzul. Then he went off about how I told him that we couldn’t change any wanted gear (which…I didn’t; I’ve let 3-4 people change their gear within the last few weeks, and chatted with the other “leaders” about people swapping gear too), so we’re fucking him over because we’re not doing CC @ SSR for his Usu body, which, btw, he claims we can do with ANY old 6 people. Anyone can do it. Also, he knew I was changing people’s gear, and he told me “well I thought you guys were my friends so I looked the other way.” He never once asked me about it, yet he holds ME responsible for not knowing that he was having issues with the lotting system, because I didn’t go to him and ask him if he wanted to change it. I’m not a babysitter, really guys, I’m not. I work at a daycare with toddlers, I expect this kind of behavior from them. Not from an adult.
Anyways! One specific example: We were planning on doing Arrapago Sat, SSR Mon, and Bhaf boss Tues. Because this guy was so upset about not doing SSR, and insisting that us not doing it due to low numbers was BS, we tried it last night with 6 people. We just wanted to fix things with him; when he doesn’t have something lodged up his rear he’s a very nice guy and we DO want to get him his gear. He’s a friend and we’ve always wanted to help him. So we went with 6. The first bit of the run went well, he was telling us what to do and acknowledged that we wouldn’t get to CC just then but we’d learn for Monday. We get to the 4th floor with less than 20 minutes left, and suddenly he changes to completely unreasonable and a HUGE jerk. He’s complaining to Star about person x and person y, and how they suck so bad at their jobs and why can’t they just get it right. He’s telling the RDM that he needs to gravity and bind everything after it’s slept, despite the fact that we’ve got like 4 things at camp and there are things like recast timers.
This is the lovely stunt he pulled on me last night.
I was on bard; I’m NEVER on bard. At the start of the night, I asked if Marchx2 was acceptable, and was told yes, that was fine. So anyways, we’re on the 4th floor, and he asks for mad/min when we have ONE minute remaining. Except, he doesn’t ask. He tells. And, he insults Staren in the process, as Star has a blackbelt and he doesn’t. Star’s belt has NOTHING to do with this; our other bards always cast Marchx2, and did this BEFORE Star started to come as monk. Moreover, I ASKED, and was told March x2 was good. I was a smidge miffed given how the evening had gone, but I tried to be nice about it. Looking back, that ;) may have been ill-timed since he was mad too but I honestly didn’t mean anything bad by it. So anyways, we get kicked out a minute later, and this happens:
He’s mad because he “told” me to sing mad/min for the gears. As you can see here, I’m all but positive he did not. Despite this fact, I explained why I was confused and acknowledged that I misunderstood what he meant if he really did ask for this for gears on the 4th floor. Of course, I then had to go back and double check. This is what he asked for earlier:
To which I responded “ok”. I don’t know…he may have thought it, but I can’t read minds, and I do not see ANYTHING about needing min/mad for gears or for floor 4. It’s not in the SS, but I double checked and he asked for this we were killing…the Rampart on fl3! So after we killed the rampart, I went back to Marchx2! I just..I don’t even know. With this guy, EVERYTHING is someone else’s fault. He was complaining this week about how he got shit from our Nyzul static, when he got askar shoes and pants. He said he wanted body, and when it droped it was his…and he TOLD Rae to lot against him. Rae won, and our static fucked him over because he got “shit”. I lied to him because I said Rae was a part of our Salvage group from the start, and I fucked him over because he didn’t ask me if he could change his wanted list. Obviously I’m stupid and didn’t realize that he wanted mad/min for fl4 gears…I mean, how could I have missed that that’s what he was asking? Nothing is *EVER* his fault. It’s always someone elses. I’m thinking it’s about time to cut our losses, and I’ll be sad to see him go because he was a good friend, and is a great player. But this bullshit isn’t acceptable.
He told Star and I both that we shouldn’t “mistake his kindness for weakness.” Oh, we won’t…but we also won’t mistake your elitism that we somehow missed, or your pigheadness, for strength.
Anywho! Enough of that, if anyone is still reading! And this last SS, my “quote of the day”, is very nice (: Out of the 6 people present…guess who the only female is!
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